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funging

funging is the present participle and gerund of funge.

Meaning of funge

Noun

funge (plural funges)

  1. (obsolete) A fungus.
  2. (obsolete) A fool or simpleton.
    • Be not ashamed of thy birth then, thou art a gentleman all the world over, and shalt be honoured, whenas he, strip him of his fine clothes, dispossess him of his wealth, is a funge […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

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Questions about funging

What is funging the present participle and gerund of?
Funging is the present participle and gerund of funge.

Words near funging in the dictionary

  1. fungimycin
  2. fungin
  3. fungine
  4. fungineer
  5. fungineers
  6. funging
  7. fungiphile
  8. fungiphiles
  9. fungiphilic
  10. fungipod
  11. fungipods

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